http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091230/national/close_well_order

It wasn't anything to worry about before. Now it's even less so," said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( Read more... )

I just saw an ad on Hulu for a medicine to grow eyelashes. Complete with side effect warnings, etc.

Okay, seriously, why are people wasting time and scientific resources on such inane things?

I'll just cite the guy who invented a rape machine, which is just what it sounds like, using it on chimpanzees in order to research subject of love. I'll leave the rest of the disturbing list to you folks.

http://www.cracked.com/article_17039_p2.html

MOSCOW - NASA’s mission that sent a space probe smashing into a comet raised more than cosmic dust - it also brought a lawsuit from a Russian astrologer ( Read more... )